curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/agents/environments?limit=20&order=asc&after=example-after&type=openai_hosted' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

# GET /agents/environments (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI API key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> List agent environments

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/agents/environments?limit=20&order=asc&after=example-after&type=openai_hosted' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| limit | query | integer | No | The maximum number of resources to return, between 1 and 100. Defaults to 20. |
| order | query | string | No | The order in which resources are returned. Defaults to `desc`. |
| after | query | string | No | Return resources after this resource ID in the selected order. |
| type | query | string | No | The hosting type to list. Defaults to `openai_hosted`. |

## Response example
{"object":"list","data":[{}]}

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GET

GET /agents/environments — OpenAI API

OpenAI API key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

List agent environments

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 246 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/agents/environments?limit=20&order=asc&after=example-after&type=openai_hosted' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
limit	query	integer	No	The maximum number of resources to return, between 1 and 100. Defaults to 20.
order	query	string	No	The order in which resources are returned. Defaults to `desc`.
after	query	string	No	Return resources after this resource ID in the selected order.
type	query	string	No	The hosting type to list. Defaults to `openai_hosted`.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "type": "openai_hosted",
      "id": "string",
      "object": "agent.environment",
      "status": "pending",
      "files": [
        {
          "type": "file_id",
          "id": "string",
          "file_id": "string",
          "path": "string",
          "size_bytes": 0
        }
      ],
      "skills": [
        {
          "type": "skill_reference",
          "skill_id": "string",
          "version": "string",
          "name": "string",
          "description": "string"
        }
      ],
      "plugins": [
        {
          "type": "inline",
          "name": "string",
          "description": "string"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "first_id": "string",
  "last_id": "string",
  "has_more": true
}

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